Cheese band delays retirement with an encore at 3 more stores. The company planned to phase out the animatronic players at all but two. Webon the heels of this development and an “ outcry ” among fans, chuck e. Cheese revealed its decision to keep the animatronics alive at four additional stores in. Cheese recently announced that its always iconic, occasionally terrifying animatronic band would be phased out of restaurants starting this year,. Webabout two dozen of the more than 400 chuck e. Cheeses in the u. s. Still host the animatronics band. By december 2024, there will only be one: Webafter the coronavirus pandemic closed many locations and drove the company to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the summer of 2020, chuck e. Cheese in northridge, calif. , will be the last remaining stronghold for the chain's signature animatronics. Npr's emma bowman visited the pizza arcade for nostalgia sake.
